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Searching For The Fourth Amendment: In A Post-September 11th World, Does The Rationale Of The Fourth Circuit In United States V. Jenkins Reduce The Fourth Amendment Protections Of Individuals On Military Installations?, Ryan Leary Oct 2006

Searching For The Fourth Amendment: In A Post-September 11th World, Does The Rationale Of The Fourth Circuit In United States V. Jenkins Reduce The Fourth Amendment Protections Of Individuals On Military Installations?, Ryan Leary

Campbell Law Review

This comment will begin by discussing how the Fourth Circuit's rationale in United States v. Jenkins could be interpreted as an exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant and probable cause requirements on closed military installations. Next, this comment will establish the legal definition of a closed military base to determine the potential impact of any interpretation of the Fourth Circuit's decision in Jenkins. Then, this comment will analyze how Jenkins could be interpreted in both broad and narrow ways and why the narrower reading of the Jenkins opinion should be followed. This comment will then consider how other circuits have …


Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson Apr 2006

Reflections On Standing: Challenges To Searches And Seizures In A High Technology World, José F. Anderson

All Faculty Scholarship

Among the profound issues that surround constitutional criminal procedure is the obscure often overlooked issue of who has standing to challenge an illegal search, seizure or confession. Privacy interests are often overlooked because without a legal status that allows a person to complain in court, there is no way to challenge whether one is constitutionally protected from personal invasions. Standing is that procedural barrier often imposed to prevent a person in a case from objecting to improper police conduct because of his or her relationship of ownership, proximity, location, or interest in an item searched or a thing seized. Although …


The Reasonable Policeman: Police Intent In Criminal Procedure, Craig M. Bradley Jan 2006

The Reasonable Policeman: Police Intent In Criminal Procedure, Craig M. Bradley

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Mapp V. Ohio: The First Shot Fired In The Warren Court's Criminal Procedure 'Revolution', Yale Kamisar Jan 2006

Mapp V. Ohio: The First Shot Fired In The Warren Court's Criminal Procedure 'Revolution', Yale Kamisar

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Although Earl Warren ascended to the Supreme Court in 1953, when we speak of the Warren Court's "revolution" in American criminal procedure we really mean the movement that got underway half-way through the Chief Justice's sixteen-year reign. It was the 1961 case of Mapp v. Ohio, overruling Wolf v. Colorado and holding that the state courts had to exclude illegally seized evidence as a matter of federal constitutional law, that is generally regarded as having launched the so-called criminal procedure revolution.